fussy tort

[siwash]

Well, he won't eat if his food has been dusted with calcium... i experimented tonight and he refused it but ate the same thing (hibiscus) if it was not spinkeld..

i had no idea that these things are fussy... what am i going to do now? watch him deteriorate due to lack of calcium?

I am using something called "Reptile Lite"

 

[RTfanatic]

May be dusting it too thick, but if they are getting plenty of hibiscus they are getting calcium.

 

[siwash]

But he's indoors so he needs the D3 Calcium to process the light..

he ended up eating afterward... but i had to put the food on a flat rock in the vivarium. He wouldn't eat the chopped up mixed greens (raddichio, hibiscus, oak leaf lettuce) that was coated and placed on a plastic lid.

Maybe i did coat it too much... how much is enough?

 

[oswego tort lover]

good thing about hermanni is they will eat your calcium with out it being on food. use a flat container or one they can walk into and just place it where they can get to it. even large hermanni will eat it from a pile. with neonates you may have to pick it up and place it infront of this pile several times on differant days before they remember where it is.............ed

 

[siwash]

wow, they eat the calcium powder? strange...

i hear cuttle bone works too... but someone suggested that he's too small right now